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- StarsAgnes Boesen
- DirectorViggo LarsenStarsAxel BoesenGudrun KjerulfViggo LarsenThe first scene in this production opens in the office of a large music hall where several artists are waiting to see the manager. Among them is a celebrated acrobat, Joe Belling, and his sweetheart, the pretty singer, Daisy. Just then the door opens, and Tsing Fu, a Chinese magician, enters. Tsing Fu has known Daisy for some time, and has forced his attentions upon her, but has always been repulsed. Belling is asked to the manager's office, and Tsing Fu and Daisy are left alone. The former repeats his old games. When Belling comes back, he realizes the situation, and punishes the Chinaman by knocking him down, after which he leaves the office with Daisy. Very furious at the rough treatment, Tsing Fu swears revenge, and we see him next in one of the opium dens in the Chinese quarter, figuring out a plan. The same evening while Belling is doing his turn on the stage, the Chinaman noiselessly enters Daisy's dressing room and with the assistance of two other Chinamen, make off with her. As soon as Belling finds out what has happened, he questions Tsing Fu, but Tsing Fu pretends to know nothing. However, Belling does not believe him, and follows him secretly on his way home, little thinking that a trap is laid for him. Tsing Fu enters a house and Belling follows, but before doing so he sends a boy with a note to a well-known detective informing him where he has gone. As Belling appears in the floor of the house he is overpowered, taken into a shed and dropped through a trap floor. The detective, having received the note, appears disguised as a Chinaman and gains admission, He finds an old Chinaman all alone, and after overpowering him, he succeeds in finding Belling. They both now release the Chinaman and pretend to leave the house, but wait outside to watch the Chinaman who leaves and quickly runs to Tsing Fu to warn him. The detective and Belling follow and with the help of a policeman the house is entered, and Daisy released, and Tsing Fu taken prisoner.
- For a considerable time, company of soldiers have been endeavoring to catch a gang of brigands who have done great damage to the property of the inhabitants in the surrounding villages. At length they succeed in rounding up the brigands, who are taken and temporarily locked up in a shed guarded by two sentries under the command of a sergeant. The sergeant's sweetheart, full of pity for the exhausted and starving brigand chief, asks her fiancé if she can bring the man some food. He permits her to do this, and the prisoner accepts it gratefully. After that, she persuades the sergeant to walk a little way home with her, which he does, although reluctantly, and after giving strict orders to the sentries to be on the lookout. The two sentries having taken part in the search, arc tired, and after their sergeant has given them such a bad example of discipline, they fall asleep. The brigand chief, noticing the quietness, is successful in releasing himself from his bonds, and manages to steal away. He has hardly left, however, when the sergeant returns and finds the two sleeping sentries, and he quickly opens the door to assure himself of the prisoner's presence, and is much astonished on discovering he has escaped. He rouses the two sleeping sentries, and the three make a hurried search through the surrounding country for the prisoner. All is in vain, and there is nothing left to do but to report the matter to the superior officer. The sergeant is at once arrested for his negligence, and just as he is being taken away as a prisoner, his sweetheart appears on the scene. She hears the terrible news that the sergeant is to be shot at sunset for having neglected his duty. With tears in her eyes, she runs away to find the brigand chief, for she knows he is the only man who can save her sweetheart. Climbing over rocks, and cutting her way through bushes, she continues until she finds the hiding place of the brigand. Going on her knees, she tells the chief what has happened, and asks him to help her. For a moment the chief hesitates, after which he orders his men to remain where they are, and he himself accompanies the girl. Both hurry back to the quarters, arriving there the very moment the sergeant is placed in a position to receive the deadly volley of shots. The commanding officer is just lifting his sword to give the signal to fire, when the brigand chief rushes before him, reporting himself back as prisoner. With raised head, he exchanges places with the sergeant, and receives the shots instead, knowing that he had done one good deed in his life.
- DirectorViggo LarsenStarsEllen DiedrichRigmor JerichauViggo LarsenThe first scene portrays a room in Mr. Allan's house. He is admiring a necklace of diamonds, when his nephew, Alfred Farley, a disreputable young man, having reached the end of his resources, applies to his uncle for the loan of some money, but he is refused. Spying the necklace, Farley tries to persuade his uncle to give it to him and, being refused again, he becomes angry and springs at his uncle in an endeavor to strangle him to gain possession of the coveted necklace. The effort is in vain, as Allan eludes him and angrily orders him from the house. We next see Mr. Allan at the theater dressing room of Margaret Hayes, a prima donna singer, where he presents her with the necklace just as she is leaving for the stage. Not wishing to leave it in the room, she twists it around her arm, and is followed out by Mr. Allan and her maid. In her absence Farley enters her dressing room and. after searching around finally discovers the empty box that had contained the necklace. Realizing that further search would be futile, he leaves and decides to go to her apartments and arriving there he lets himself down from the roof on a rope. Masked, he searches around the room and, being unsuccessful, hides behind a heavy curtain at the balcony door and awaits Miss Hayes' arrival from the theater. As she enters the room she notices the confusion, and detecting him she grasps the telephone and calls for Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, but before she can say anything he rushes from his hiding place and forces the telephone away from her. Sherlock Holmes, on the other end of the wire, hears only a scream, and immediately locating the number, rushes to her home. Farley in the meantime has escaped to the roof and when Holmes arrives and sees Miss Hayes unconscious. he notices the rope and quickly clambers up after the scoundrel. Farley from above notices this and loosens the rope, hut Holmes luckily saves himself by clinging to the balcony which leads to the apartment of a gentleman and his servant. He explains his presence there and, with the aid of the men rushes to the roof in pursuit of the fugitive. Farley, from behind a chimney, shoots at the approaching men and after his revolver is emptied runs, but in jumping from one roof to another he falls and is captured and bound. He is then taken to the apartment of the singer, who has no difficulty in recognizing him as the thief and Farley is forced to give up the necklace and is turned over into the hands of the detective's assistants.
- Prince Albert is sent as king's messenger to a foreign country on an important diplomatic mission, and carries with him some very valuable documents. Some anarchists having heard of this voyage of the Prince, plot to assassinate him, and bribe one of his servants to furnish them with the particulars of the contemplated journey. This servant overhears a conversation between the Prince and his accompanying staff of detectives, and according to this news, the anarchists manage to board the steamer Slavonia, on which the Prince is to travel. Hidden in a large packing case, in which they were smuggled on hoard, they escape the observation of any of the officers or crew. The only one who is suspicious of the case is the wireless operator, and he calls the attention of the captain to it, but is not listened to. The anarchists have little difficulty in prowling around the steamer, and in placing their infernal machine, which is regulated to blow up the steamer at a certain hour, so as to give them plenty of time to escape the disaster. In the meantime, however, the police on shore happen to hear of the affair, and arrest the servant, who confesses everything. With the aid of the wireless telegraph, a message is sent out to sea, informing the captain of the news. But the difficulty for the captain is to find the place where the machine is placed, and he is now vexed that he did not listen to the advice of the wireless operator. In feverish haste the whole boat is searched, during which time the anarchists take advantage of the excitement and escape in a small boat, and now can be seen in the distance from the ship. A number of the crew volunteer to give chase, and a boat is lowered and the race commences between the two boats. The crew's boat finally succeeds in catching up with the anarchists, and after an exciting combat the anarchists are taken prisoners. On their return to the steamer, they are at pistol's point forced to tell where they have concealed the infernal machine and the time of the explosion. The wireless operator is in an almost exhausted condition after the search, but he fearlessly picks up the bomb and throws it overboard, after which the strain proves too much for him and he sinks to the deck unconscious. He soon recovers, however, and is handsomely rewarded by the Prince for his pluckiness.
- Evans, a forester, is seated one evening in his comfortable home as his young employer, Count Roberts, rushes in, explaining that he had just been assaulted by a poacher known as Black Jim. The forester has to leave immediately in search of the man, and as soon as he leaves his wife and Count Roberts embrace and kiss. They do not notice that the forester has been watching them. He determines to shoot Roberts and Black Jim agrees to aid him. The forester returns and reports that he can not find Black Jim, so the count decides to go out and look for him. The count's mother and his young wife seek to dissuade him, but are unsuccessful. The forester, feeling for the women, repents his scheme, and changes clothes with the count. A moment later a bullet goes through his brain. He is carried home, where his action if first understood.
- The sun is burning, the air is as hot as in a baker's oven and it is no wonder that Mr. Brown, when taking a walk and suddenly finding himself at the bank of a brook, feels an irresistible inclination of diving in the cooling waves. Rapidly he takes a look round in the neighborhood, and not seeing a single soul, he starts undressing, but, "by Jove," as he has come as far as the underwear, he hears the sound of steps coming up in his direction. Quickly he steps behind a small shrub, and here he is a most unwilling witness to an intimate rendezvous, which he against his own good will abbreviates by a rather inconvenient sneeze. This sneeze is the introduction to a row of adversities to which Mr. Brown is the subject, and the result is self-explanatory: From this day he swears to confine his bathing to a tub only.
- StarsPetrine SonneMr. S. is a very happy man, with one exception; He is possessed of a very bald head, which he does not fancy. He is therefore exceedingly pleased when he discovers an advertisement in a newspaper of a new cure for baldness. He at once procures a bottle of this marvelous restorer, but it acts so effectively on himself and members of his household that he greatly regrets ever having used it. A very laughable subject.
- This story tells us of young Mabel, a pretty but somewhat careless girl, whose one fault is that she is greatly in love with Bob, a ne'er-do-well with no particular ambition. He finds it easier to live on money obtained dishonestly than that earned by work. Mabel is employed as a waitress and considerable money passes through her hands. She assists her sweetheart in many ways, but he is hard to please. In order to satisfy his wants, he influences her to take a purse from the pocket of a friend. Her conscience, however, bothers her, and throwing the purse in front of Bob, she runs away in despair. The purse is afterwards found in his possession and he is arrested. Mabel, who cannot rid herself of her guilty conscience, finally attempts to end her life. A young doctor, out for a walk with his aged mother, notices her and realizing her condition and hearing of her misery, induces her to go home with them and give up her suicidal ideas. She stays with these good people for some time, and the old lady takes a liking to her to such an extent that Mabel is asked to stay as her companion. A little later the old lady is taken seriously ill, and cannot recover. On her death bed, she expresses the wish that her son marry Mabel, and this wish is duly respected. The young couple begin life very happily. Nothing disturbs their happiness for the next few years, when Mabel's happiness is suddenly disturbed through Bob, who has been released from prison. He is determined to have his revenge, blaming Mabel for his long sentence which he has had to serve. The first thing he does is to locate her. In this he succeeds and in a brutal way requests her to leave her husband and go with him. She can only get rid of him by supplying him with money. Bob now sees that she is really afraid of him, and repeatedly asks her for money, which she gives him, he threatening that if she refuses, to disclose her past. Mabel is finally driven to desperation by his persistence and, taking a chair she knocks him senseless. Thinking that she has committed a crime, she runs away to a park and makes a second attempt on her life. Too late she is found by her husband, who cannot aid her. She has suffered for the sins of her past life.
- DirectorHolger RasmussenStarsAugust BlomGudrun KjerulfJohannes MeyerDuring the French Revolution, the Lady of Trionville, Alaine, was left sole mistress of the castle; she marries Marquis Erneste de Tressailles, who has taken leave from the Royalist army for a few days. When the latter arrives at the castle with some of his brother officers, the republican servant Prosper, in a fit of temper, pulls the royalistic cockade from the hat of the new master. A few moments after, the soldiers of the revolutionary army having advanced, take possession of the castle, and the young Marquis has to flee. The servant is so touched by this untimely interruption, that out of pity for the Marquis, he takes the royalistic cockade and tries to hide it, but it is found and he is considered a royalist and sentenced to die. The Marquis' flight is very short, as he is overtaken and made a prisoner. He is not even allowed to see his wife, who had been married to him only a few hours previously. Alaine, his young wife, is greatly distressed that her husband should have to die, and she sends for the Colonel Marc-Arron, who was a great admirer of hers. She asks him to let her husband escape, but Marc-Arron sees only his duty, and her pleadings are of no avail. As she sees that money will not induce the colonel to help her she takes his hands and reminds him of their old friendship, when he was still an officer in the royal army. Marc-Arron, who still admires her, cannot resist her and promises her he will do his best. He quickly exchanges his coat for that of the Marquis, and the latter escapes without taking any notice of his wife, leaving her in the hands of the revolutionists. Marc-Arron is now condemned to die, and when Alaine sees that he has really sacrificed his life for her, she sees how deep his love was for her, and she cannot but admire the man. Next morning when the time arrives for carrying out the sentence, Marc-Arron is very restless and afraid to face death, but when the sergeant reminds him that he must bear it like a man, he soon recovers, and proudly faces the soldiers. Alaine, who has now found out that she really loves him, begs him to escape, but he refuses to do so. In the meantime the Marquis has been taken prisoner again, at the moment when he tried to cross the frontier, and he is brought back to Trionville. Monteloup demands now that the Marquis should be shot instead of Marc-Arron, as the hitter's life is of more value to the Republic, but Marc-Arron, thinking of his honor, does not wait for any decision, and calling out to the soldiers to fire, he dies, a hero and brave soldier.
- Mary Wilson is Doctor Brown's housekeeper. There is something quiet and kind about Mary which makes her liked by everyone. She is nice and friendly to all, and although she is admired by the young men, still she does not show preference for any particular one. One day a young man working as a painter where Mary is employed, falls in love with her, and, strange to say, he succeeds in winning her for his wife. Dr. Brown also has a great admiration for his housekeeper, and intends to make her his wife, but on the day he proposes to her he learns, to his great sorrow, that she is lost to him. Mary is happily married, and her happiness is greatly increased by being the mother of a very pretty little girl. But her luck was too good to last. One day her husband is brought home dead, after having fallen from a scaffold, and Mary is left a widow. She fights hard to get an honest living, which she manages to do, with the help of her sewing machine, which she obtains on the rental system. But matters are very unfortunate, and she cannot keep up the payments. The man from whom she bought the machine will not wait longer for the money, and as she cannot keep her promise, he sends men to lake the machine away, thus depriving Mary of her last means of supporting herself and child. Driven to desperation, and tired of fighting misfortune, she cannot bear the sufferings of herself and little daughter any longer, and seeing no way out of her misery except suicide, she places the last few pieces of coke in the stove, closes the damper in the chimney, and is now ready to die, with the aid of the poisoned fumes. A neighbor of hers who has been watching her for the past few days, is rather suspicions, and so when she smells the fumes, which penetrate through the apertures of the door, the neighbor knows that her suspicions are justified. She procures help to break the door open, and finds Mary and her child unconscious on the floor. They send quickly for a doctor, and, strange to say, the nearest doctor obtainable is Doctor Brown, Mary's former sweetheart, who arrives on the scene at once. His heart nearly breaks when he sees the misery of the woman he had formerly admired, and whom he still really loves. After doing his best to bring her hack to consciousness, and succeeding, he thinks of his old intentions, and asks her to come back and be his wife. With tears in her eyes, Mary accepts the generous offer, and she is happy once again.
- Old Squire Drake, who for some time has been in ill health, is ordered by his physician to take a long sea voyage to regain his strength. Before leaving, he appoints his eldest son, Tom, to look after and manage the estate during his absence. The young man, however, has a different conception of duty and care than that of his father, and the old squire has hardly departed before the son starts to live a life of extreme extravagance. Friends are asked to dinners and entertainments where the most expensive things are served. Neither his mother nor sister can induce him to discontinue his extravagant ways, and after a few weeks the money and also the credit of the old squire are gone. There is nothing now for the young man to do but to mortgage the property, and after this has been done, there being nothing more to turn into money, the whole estate is taken possession of by the creditors. The day arrives when the old squire returns from his journey. Full of sorrow, the old man realizes what his son has done, and he refuses to have anything more to do with him. Tired of the reckless life, the son makes up his mind to end it, but the daughter of a neighbor, who has always loved him, induces him to leave the country and go to America, and lead a better life. This he agrees to do, on the condition that she will become his wife and go with him. She accepts this offer and they both depart for America, where her good influence and character help him to become a good man, and after several years they return to their old home, the possessors of considerable wealth. Remembering the misery which he had caused his old father, the son now does everything in his power to make up for it. He has sufficient money and buys the old estate back again, and turns it over to the father, as a compensation for all the wrong he has done and the misery he has caused.
- Dr. Kramer is sitting one evening in his comfortable home, in conversation with his wife, when the nurse appears with his two children to let them say good-night before going to bed. The doctor is struck by the appearance of the boy, who looks very ill, and he examines him carefully. Before he has finished the examination, a man arrives with a message that a poor workman's child is very ill and requires the doctor's services. The doctor hesitates about leaving his own boy, but it is his duty to go, and he follows the messenger from the house. He arrives at the workman's home, attends to the child until he is out of danger, and then hurries back to his own boy. During his absence, however, his son grows steadily worse, and the mother at last, in desperation, sends for another doctor. This doctor has less experience than Dr. Kramer and is unable to do anything for the child, who dies before the father arrives home. This is the heaviest blow that could strike Dr. Kramer, and he sinks into deep melancholy, talking to nobody. Even his little girl cannot console him for the loss of his boy. He walks around as though he were in a dream, and one day while sitting in the park, the workman whose child he had attended sees him, and approaches to thank him again for saving the life of his little boy. But the doctor refuses to accept his thanks, for in his grief he unjustly blames the workman for the loss of his son. Greatly surprised, the workman is about to withdraw, when he sees the little daughter of the doctor sitting on the grass, innocently playing with a poisonous snake. He grasps the snake, but before he can kill it, it has its poisonous fangs in his hand. As the doctor sees this he suddenly wakes up from his stupor, and he realizes that there is not a minute to be lost in performing an operation on the man to save his life. All the old interest in his work returns, and he saves the workman's life through a quick operation. The doctor after this is a very different man, and through his gratitude to the poor workman for saving his daughter's life the two families become very good friends.
- This picture illustrates the unfortunate dilemma of two policemen who, in pursuit of a couple of burglars, follow the latter on all fours into a large drainpipe. The thieves, emerging at the other end, quickly set the pipe in motion downhill. It spreads destruction on every hand, but at last crashes into a café, into which the two thieves have gone, and are gloating over the success of their stratagem, whereupon the officers emerging, at last effect a capture.
- DirectorViggo LarsenStarsEdith BuemannGudrun KjerulfViggo LarsenThe beautiful Corsican girl, Marietta, has two ardent admirers, Carlo and Enrico, and it is quite difficult for her to decide which one to accept. She keeps both at a distance. The uncertainty is exciting the two fellows to such a pitch that their friendship gradually diminishes and one day Marietta surprises them as they are about to fight with knives as weapons. She is frightened, but her clever and convincing words induce the fellows to agree to an arrangement which she proposes for settling the matter. High up on one of the rocks where no man's foot has ever rested, an eagle has built a nest. Marietta decides that she will be the wife of the one who first brings her an egg from the nest. Carlo and Enrico are ready to start for the task and Marietta watches them swim through the breakers. Carlo, who is the better climber, arrives at the nest first and takes the egg out of it, but on coming back he forgets all precaution in his hurry, and with one false step misses his hold and falls over the steep rocks to the bottom where Enrico, who is left behind, is on his way. The latter takes the egg out of the dead man's hand and swims back for his reward. The wedding takes place and everybody is happy excepting Enrico, who cannot forget Carlo's tragic death. When the young couple are left together Enrico feels a little easier, but just as he is embracing his young wife the image of Carlo rises between them. Mad with fright and horror, Enrico rushes out of the house down to the sea, and the wife and the mother go to look for him, but they only find his body at the bottom of the rocks.
- StarsOscar Stribolt
- DirectorViggo LarsenStarsEdith BuemannGudrun KjerulfViggo LarsenPierre and Marcelle are two circus artists that love, I've and work together. Presently they are engaged at the Hippodrome where the Italian singer Lola is the star. Lola has eyes for Pierre. But Marcelle stands in the way.